Hey all,
This could very well be a mingw / windows issue, but I wanted to put it out there:
I was trying to compile a project called ogre4j
http://ogre4j.sourceforge.net/ but was having trouble due to the number of object files it needs to link at once. Specifically, there are 749 files, and the command line that code::blocks generates is something like 45k characters long. Ultimately, things don't work.
Unfortunately, there isn't an error message or anything helpful afterwards. It just says the command failed, and the next line says "Nothing to do". Suspecting the number of files was the problem, i removed as many as i could from the codebase without losing features that I need, and I was eventually able to link things.
My questions are:
(1) is this a known problem? Is it with MinGW? Windows?
(2) is there a work around I can use to compile the whole program? Incremental linking? Linking to intermediate objects?
Appreciate the help. I am a Java guy, and needing to put together some C++ code for my current project.
cheers,
eric